Life Span of Common Items

[Kilgs]

A few years ago they did something to the ciggarettes for safety, not sure what, but if you're not actively smoking it, it will go out. Like if you set it down for a few minutes then come back to it, odds are you'll have to relight it.

As a fellow smoker, I must provide OT info.

Next time you're smoking, look at your cigarette closely. See those little lines up and down the paper Those were powdered with gunpowder and magnesium() or some other flammable stuff. The legislature put a limit on it but it's still there.

Put your cigarette in an ashtray and watch it burn down to one of those lines, in American cigarettes you can still see a little flare as the powder is ignited and keeps the cigarette burning. The older versions were much more visible.

Based on the theory that if it kept burning, you would need to buy more sooner rather than later.

[dragoon500ly]

came across this on the US Army Quartermaster website,

Shelf life for an MRE is 18 months, unless stored in climate controlled warehouse.

Shelf life for a MCI (Meal, Combat, Individual...replaced by the MRE) is 3 years.

hmmmmmm

[pmulcahy11b]

As an Adjunct, knives have to be almost continually sharpened -- certainly after any heavy use. And some knives get to the point where they basically have to be discarded, because the sharpening wears the blade back to the part of the metal that won't take an edge (some brands of Swiss Army Knives are like this -- always buy the genuine!

[dragoon500ly]

Now, now, be nice! Even Leathermans have feelings!

[Brother in Arms]

I quit smoking six months ago

comercially manufactured ciggarette paper is nitrated this causes the ciggarette to burn down like slow match.

Today they put flame retardant in the ciggarette paper but did not remove the nirtrate.

Cigarettes like american spirits never had the nitrate in the paper so they were not forced to add the flame retardant. It's really stupid that the companies add chemicals instead of remove them for the same effect.

All I know is the safety ciggarettes don't taste the same and they leave a strange smell on you fingers and hands that smells a little like ammonia.